New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-18

AUNT Urst.jas Misfortune" ID very Hhefcih
performance. The heroine Is a lady Of uhcersaaf
ace who has lived generation or 30 on the
strength OF a youthful sorrow. In her teens shs
loved wild and worthless cousin whom she
would have married but that her father put his
veto on the match. This cousin, having saaan.
dered everything. enlisted, hoping that he would
be bought of. But Just then the Crmean war
broke out, and he was compelled to 60 away with
| his regiment, Presently he reported miss
| ing,' and everybody concluded that he was dead
| Aunt Ursula at once declared that she wouio
never marry, devoted herself thereafter DO nursing
her sorrow, established shrine IN her loom with
photograph Of her cousin es the oetece OF
worship, and bound herself 10 an impiacaeie
hatred of the army as the cause OF all her woe
In tho course of time her niece. . pretty girl,
falls IN love with officer. and when Aunt
Ursula finds 1t out there is trouble. All sorts OF
obstacles to the love affair arise, and a family
quarrel is on the point of bresting DUB when sud-
denly the long-mourned cousin OF Aunt Ursula
reappears. lie Is a fat. coarse, middle-aged man.
He had it seemed deserted after having been
made prisoner by the Russians, and had married
young woman who nursed him. He has quite
forgotten the old tenderness, and unconcernedly
tells his adventures to the shuddering and almost
lneless old maid who sees the whole illusion Of
hep life shattered, and nothing left but tho
crueest disappointment. Naturally. however
revulsion takes place in her feelings. and after
driving her recreant and tIaitOrous lover from her
sight she recants all her opposition to the military
and gives her assent to the marriage OF her niece
This story is amusing in itself and 1t is excelently
told. The character Of Aunt Ursula is full of art.
and the denoument Is capital
In LA France Juive devant L'Opinion' NJ.
Drumont continues his attack upon the Semitic
race with unfinished energy defending himself
against all the criticisms his sensational work
called out, expressing his opinions upon tho
various revenges attempted upon him, and gather
ing together @ number Of illustrations Of the
sympathy and approval extended to him by the
French public for his bold exposure of last year.
1t Is perhaps Unnecessary DO say that the ex-
travagance and bitterness which in the Judgment
OF impartial readers disfgured and weakened
LA France Juive" are to be found in the later
volume. 10 such lengths is he carried by his
antipathies or by the desire to strengthen his
case that he gravey defends the persecution Of
the jews by the Spanish Inqusition, and us grave
ly observes that the Spanish Jews were never
pursued by the Holy Office on account Of their
religion. When Il writer gets as far Us that it
ceases to be worth while TO follow him. unless one
has ample leisure and is particularly fond Of
paradoxes. NJ. Drumont is evidently determined
w WOrh OuV IDe new VEIN ne mas STRUCK COM |
pletely, however, for he has already in press a
new work, to be called "L'Europe Juive." lie |
puts sting in the conclusion of "La France ,Juivc
deN ant L'Opinion' by intimaing that the German |
jews doing their best ~ bring on a war against
France, for the purpose of revenging their CO. |
religionists in the latter country. That is n !
kind of blow below the belt, to be delivered at so
nerv GUS and critical period as the present.
NJ. Charles Yriarte in Rome when the last |
lapal Council held, and in this handsome |
volume he records his impressions Of the Eternal |
-1ty, and especially of the ecclcsias-
ical manners and customs which he |
observed at the time Most of his |
observations were the outside, but they are |
shrewd. suggestive and often amusing, and some |
Of his gossip about the little world Of the Vatican
has the interest of novelty. though the reader may
not always feel quite sure as to the triistworthi
ness Of the authority. The book is well and |
ibundantly illustrated. having four very good |
etchings after IIellbuth, and ninety cngrayings |
IN the text by Detaille, Godfrey Durand Liz |
Bocourt de Liphart, the author, and Wallet |
Portraits of many Of the church dgnitarics who |
attended the Council lend additional value TO the |
work.